[Microsoft lawyer David] Tulchin spent nearly two hours explaining how [plaintiffs’ lawyer Roxanne] Conlin had improperly persuaded Tom Howery, a Hewlett-Packard technician hired to find and restore missing computer tapes in a previous Microsoft case, to give her internal documents from that case, and how Conlin had kept that information from the court and Microsoft for months.

Conlin’s lawyer, Mark Tripp, responded with outrage, saying Conlin did nothing wrong: “I have never read or heard arguments filled with such distortions and half-truths.”

See this previous Associated Press story for background on the case. As the story notes, it’s one of the last remaining consumer class action suits against the company. It’s scheduled for trial next month.